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@andrewteg, or anyone else that may be able to help. i’ve tried this method, and installed the code verbatim but it’s had no effect on my site.

here’s a group on my site: http://willowbilliards.com/groups/general-discussion-forum/. You can see that it starts you off on the “Home” tab, not the Forum tab which is what I’d like to do.

here’s the code in my /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php file: http://pastebin.com/pxCWxeie
here’s the code in my /wp-content/themes/bp-child/functions.php file: http://pastebin.com/Kqyvpe8h (it’s the bottom function).

please advise what’s wrong. thanks!

Are you on a custom theme? Can you share a link? Can you test with the BPDefault theme?

Hi,

WangGuard https://buddypress.org/community/groups/wangguard/ woks fine with BuddyPress 1.5

Regards

Now we know it’s the theme that needs updating

If you haven’t got a Menu set up for the main navigation, it will default back to the same sort of way that older versions of BuddyPress used. You’ll need to drag the BuddyPress pages into the Menu builder. It should just work

You can always test adding non-BuddyPress-specific pages to your menu, and check that it appears in your theme. If it doesn’t, maybe we need to check which theme you’re using.

Hi there,
anyone got an answer to the very first question on this discussion? Would love to change the slug according to user roles! And have different profiles themes…
Sascha

@valuser Thanks for your patience, and for the kind words

Just to be clear, bp-default has been fixed to do automatically what @karmatosed suggests you do manually. This is only an issue for the BP Template Pack.

In the meantime, why not just use more specific selectors?
`body button
body a.button`
etc. The ‘body’ bit essentially does nothing in terms of which element gets selected, but it forces the browser to give your rules priority because they are formally more specific than those in bp.css. Maybe not the most elegant solution, but better than using `!important`

@valuser: Are you enqueuing your CSS for the custom styles you’ve done. To me it looks like you aren’t. There are 2 things at play here:

1. You need to now enqueue any styles keeping order ie; last style you want enqueue that last

2. !important is a little like a kid sticking their hand up in class it will get paid attention to above all else – therefore yes adding !important does work but shouldn’t be what you use you should use the ‘cascading’ nature of CSS.

You should install the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin and go through the process
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

Paul, I agree but when you are designing and have to increment with each and every change it is a PITA.

Modemlooper, I disagree. The $ver argument for wp_enqueue_script() is what you need to increment when you update an enqueued javascript/css. 1.5 does this, as does WP core.

I think this is the same problem I’ve been having with WP enqueue. Updates to a style sheet that is enqueue don’t show because of cache.

Better to use WP head for custom CSS

The BP Template Pack styles are being a little greedy. I’ll take a look at this in the next day or so with the Technozoic theme.

Keep your eye on:
https://github.com/boonebgorges/bp-template-pack/issues/7

It probably means that the stylesheet for bp-template-pack is being loaded after your custom styles. For now, either use !important, or just use a more specific selector. I’ll open a ticket on Github to see if there’s a more general solution.

Are you sure that the styles are coming from bp-default, and not from the bp-template-pack CSS? (It would be very strange indeed if it came from bp-default, unless of course your theme is a child theme of bp-default, in which case you don’t need the Template Pack.)

Google around, there is already a BuddyPress 2011 theme created

can’t edit my comment, but meant to say works with BP 1.5